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Time to Cry. Teacher Diep Thi Kim Khanh, a shy 22-year-old who was born near by, concedes that conditions are sometimes terrifying but, she says, "I cannot leave these children." She recalls the afternoon when shots burst out around the school, and Vietnamese soldiers from a nearby government fort rushed into the building to fire back through the windows at the Viet Cong. "The children began to cry and were very afraid," says Mme. Kim Khanh. "I was very afraid and on the point of crying myself." After a half-hour fight, the Reds disappeared...
...sessions held at gunpoint, they told their captives that they were "killing thousands of Americans and winning many battles," and that "the American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren, and "no one ever said anything." In choosing Long Vinh, the Viet Cong had picked badly. Though the area is 95% under Communist control, almost every young man in the village has joined the South Vietnamese army...
...shops, factories and farms as well. And thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...
Conventional hospital heart machines weigh as much as 1,000 lbs., but the new portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...
...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...